How much revenue did BOT.vinnik Chess: Late USSR Championships make?

$461–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BOT.vinnik Chess: Late USSR Championships sell?

Q: How many copies did BOT.vinnik Chess: Late USSR Championships sell?

843 to 1k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 843–1k; $461–$1k after Steam's cut $839–$2k before the cut; from 34 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left BOT.vinnik Chess: Late USSR Championships out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BOT.vinnik Chess: Late USSR Championships's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–17k

best case 34k (GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena)

Games like BOT.vinnik Chess: Late USSR Championships

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–17k copies

≈ $10k–$69k after Steam's cut

from ~228 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena at ≈ 26k–42k copies, ≈ $107k–$287k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Chess (6 of 8) and Board Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Artificial Intelligence + Competitive, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Artificial Intelligence + Competitive + PvE; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2020, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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